I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!

A library is infinity under a roof.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after.

Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.

When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you

That's funny, you're funny. I like you, I'm quite taken by you.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.

Who judges the judge who judges wrong?

I want to be with you forever and beyond.

I would stand there at times and remember how beautiful God created this world, and then I would be reassured that he would certainly take care of me and all of my loved ones.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

Planned Parenthood does some very good work. But I would defund as long as they're doing abortions.

Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.

Just be true to you. What works for me might not work for someone else and what works for someone else might not work for me.

Don't hold yourself back because you're afraid or because you've been hurt...acknowle dge your fear, accept it, and walk through it with confidence.

Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

When you die, that does not mean that you lose to cancer.

Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.